Word: segments
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...Pischetsrieder, 55, knows he must do something to shake up the company's North American sales. But he is pursuing a risky strategy inherited from Piech - pushing his flagship brand into the U.S. luxury arena, where vehicle profit margins are higher than in the mid-priced segment where VW typically competes. Thus, the firm is launching its most expensive cars ever: its first SUV, the Touareg, hits $42,000 fully loaded, putting it in league with hot models from BMW, Cadillac and Lexus. And its Phaeton - a sedan that cost over $900 million to develop, with an optional 12-cylinder...
...tended to blame the attacks on die-hard Saddam loyalists whom Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed "deadenders." It was assumed that those fighters wanted to see Saddam restored to power. In the Sunni triangle, the remnants of the Baath Party regime are thought to still account for a sizable segment of the anti-American militants. But U.S. officials believe they are making progress against the loyalists, as more figures from the deposed regime are captured or killed. Pentagon officers say the modest scale of the attacks suggests that they are conducted by small cells operating largely on their...
...order to impress the cool kids. The other graders gave the essay 2s and 3s; there was one 4. (Our scores didn't count for anything. On a real test, the raw 1 to 6 score will be combined with the raw score from the multiple-choice grammar segment and translated into an overall writing score on the traditional 200-to-800 scale...
MICHAEL GRINDON TV Executive As president of Sony Pictures Television International, Grindon, 49, exports American television programs and movies to the rest of the world. A big chunk of the division's $2 billion--plus revenue comes from licensing shows like Dawson's Creek, but the fastest-growing segment of the business is locally produced programming in countries such as Britain, Spain, France, Italy, China and Chile. Sony's first Russian show makes its debut this fall...
Boeing faces a fundamental question: Should it keep making commercial airplanes? And does the 87-year-old company even know what kind of plane to make? Years ago, Boeing decided not to build small regional jets--now the fastest-growing segment of the industry. The 757 production line will be closed down soon. And Boeing's aging 767 has been selling so poorly that the company is trying to persuade the Department of Defense to spend $22.4 billion to lease 100 767s and convert them to military tankers. That plan has stalled before a skeptical Congress...